I was having the same thoughts about liking and preferring OS and migrating from SXCE/nevada, there's some info here, although I don't have the time currently to test - and I would also need to reconfigure some slices/partitions.
http://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in Would love to hear how you get on. Regards Iain On 10 Apr 2009, at 09:55, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I'm impressed. Yesterday I upgraded my opensolaris to the latest b111 > dev release and I must say: it's looking much better than SXCE.b111. > I'm thinking of changing to opensolaris for the first time and leave > SXCE behind. > > I'm a little worried about a few things: > I use SFE (the CBE environment) a lot. Will this work on opensolaris > as > well as it does on nevada? I.e., I saw in the repo > pkg:/sunstudioexpress at 0.2009.3,5.11-0.111:20090331T092250Z while the > CBE expects a "normal" sunstudio12. > > Will VirtualBox work as expected on opensolaris as well as it does on > nevada? > > I know I have to backup my drives. Opensolaris will overwrite > everything. there is no way I can liveupgrade to it, alas. > > Tips, advice? > -- > Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D > + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv109 ++ > + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis > Carrol) > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090410/46dc351f/attachment.html>
